database

database — The name of a database, or part of a database.

Synopsis

database ::=

Attributes

Common attributes and common linking attributes.

Additional attributes:

  • class (enumeration)
    • “altkey”
    • “constraint”
    • “datatype”
    • “field”
    • “foreignkey”
    • “group”
    • “index”
    • “key1”
    • “key2”
    • “name”
    • “primarykey”
    • “procedure”
    • “record”
    • “rule”
    • “secondarykey”
    • “table”
    • “user”
    • “view”

Description

The name of a database, or part of a database.

Processing expectations

Formatted inline.

Attributes

Common attributes and common linking attributes.

any attribute

Any attribute in any other explicit namespace

class

Identifies the class of database artifact

Enumerated values:
“altkey”

An alternate or secondary key

“constraint”

A constraint

“datatype”

A data type

“field”

A field

“foreignkey”

A foreign key

“group”

A group

“index”

An index

“key1”

The first or primary key

“key2”

An alternate or secondary key

“name”

A name

“primarykey”

The primary key

“procedure”

A (stored) procedure

“record”

A record

“rule”

A rule

“secondarykey”

The secondary key

“table”

A table

“user”

A user

“view”

A view

Parents

These elements contain database: bridgehead, caption (db.html.caption), citation, citetitle, classsynopsisinfo, contrib, emphasis (db.emphasis), entry, enumitemdescription, firstterm (db.firstterm), foreignphrase (db.foreignphrase), funcsynopsisinfo, glosssee, glossseealso, glossterm (db.glossterm), link, literallayout, member, meta (db.meta.content), olink, orgdiv, para, phrase (db.phrase), primary, primaryie, programlisting, quote (db.quote), refdescriptor, refentrytitle, refname, refpurpose, remark, screen, secondary, secondaryie, see, seealso, seealsoie, seeie, seg, segtitle, simpara, subtitle, synopsis, synopsisinfo, td, term, termdef, tertiary, tertiaryie, th, title, titleabbrev, tocentry.

Children

The following elements occur in database: text, abbrev, acronym, alt, anchor, annotation, biblioref, coref, date, emphasis (db._emphasis), firstterm (db._firstterm), footnote, footnoteref, foreignphrase (db._foreignphrase), glossterm (db._glossterm), indexterm (db.indexterm.endofrange), indexterm (db.indexterm.singular), indexterm (db.indexterm.startofrange), inlinemediaobject, link, olink, phrase (db._phrase), quote (db._quote), remark, replaceable, subscript, superscript, trademark, wordasword, xref.

See Also

Related elements: application, filename, hardware, productname.

Examples

1 |<article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'>
  |<title>Example database</title>
  | 
  |<para>The <database>ProjectStatus</database> database has been updated.
5 |Please note that <database class='field'>Year</database> has been
  |extended to four digits.
  |</para>
  | 
  |</article>

The ProjectStatus database has been updated. Please note that Year has been extended to four digits.